Battery-support for automobiles.



Unit-leo SAMUELR. .BALLIY, Oi" nMliSlLl-LY, lvlASSACllISICTTS.

BATTE-R 'L7-SUPPORT FR AUTGMOB ILES.

Application filed January 4, 1907. Serial No. 350,734.

. 4chusetts, have 'invented en .improvement in vBattery-Suppoits for Antonioli il 'bile comprises two es, oi which the followingdescription, in connecionwlth the accompanying drawings, is s specifici tion, like characters on the drawings representinglike parts.` In electrically propelled automobiles or carsit is necessary to-cei'ry :i set of storage batteries which are, rclativel to the weight of the car, which must he overcome on their accoord; in starting or stopping the oar is oi conside 'able consequence. The strain on the motor, mid othor'perts, d o to inertiiif, i'u-r from. nconsiderable and it is desirable to prevent this strain as for ns'poseible. As i cor is tilted in passing overinequalities the rood, more 0I' less )Owei is expended in .raising the ports carried by tho ctnbod)r and i t is oh- Viously desimliile to prevent this loss' ol' powe to as great an extent is possible.

The object ol: my intention is to prin/.ide means whereby the necessity of simultn neously overcoming the inerti n ol the storage batteries :ind the cor body is avoided, und, to an extent, to prevent waste olz power which is expended in raising nd .loweiizig the liaiterles portions of the cnr l roriiiseo higher than other portions tho-rco: in pn.. over inequalities in the rood. l accomplish these -objeote `by providing. ineens n'lieieh 'universal swinging motion of the storfvgo heb teries with relation to the .traine i .e car is ermitted, so ythat the force of inertia. of the batteries and of the co1 does not have to he overcome simultaneously, and so tl at the extent whichthe botte-ries 'fill be lifted by thetlting of the cer'will be reduced,` i

For an understandingo the means 'W 'nich .l employ incarrying ou t my .invention reference is made'to theocompenying drawing, in which,

Fi re is e side elevation olt an out bile orne provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is e plan View of the battery snp'iort, ond Fig. 3 is a control cross. section there-1l on the lille 3-l-3fFig. 2. Fig. 4 is fz (.letziil View ol' onc'of the supportingA perfs, :1nd Fig. 5 is :L planvview of e portion oi the ironie.

The body supporting fi-nine ol' the antonioside 'liars a and n series of connecting cross-bars, two bars b, c being very henry so that tho inertie 'Specification of Letters Potent.

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shown. The battery :nipportiiig menus prei'- emolj; 'conn'nxsrs L buse plete (Z on which the ltcry cellsl is placed..

projecting enr nl on the base plete d at the` middle of( its front end. Each suspension rod. is of theA sinne construction and is con'- n'ected to the cross-bars and in the some nimmer, so that a. description of one will suffise.

The ,roil c is shown in detail in Fig. 4 and cinnprises two rod sections' ff, 6:, each' of which uro prnfidod with hee-ds having; oppositelj,r disposed semi-spherical faces adapted to sont into ci'urosponilingly shaped recesses formed in the cross-bnr and em' d respectively, vto which they are connected, each loving apertures therethrough, loading from the bottoni of said recesses thri'iugh which smid sections e, c poss and which are of Sullicicnt size to pei'init said sections to swing therein in my direction. e .is provided with on inverted, hollow@L cyiindriciil section e3 et its lower end. and the ow-ei' se dion/e2 is 'u'ovided with :i head (f4 at its up; 3nd which is fitted to slide lreely in scid oylindei. A spring ill is mounted on the Sectimi 13"" and intox-mecd between seid hea-d e" end n, ring e5 secured in the lower 'end ol cylluder through which. section e? posses. This portioulzti* construction of spring connection forms no part of my invention, :is various other forms olt spring yconnection may be employed with equal ndvinltago. As the' constrni-ftion ehown in Fig. L1 is employed in :ill oi the suspension rods, a, spring support is ior the lmttory base.

thus provid od Wiz li the above i'lescrihed construction the buttery support is .free to swing in any diroction, so that when the cor is started suddenly, said support may swing to the rear, so that the inertie ol both the cor body and the bai terics do not hun: lo he ifvereome at the saine instant, thereby avoid ecod on the motor Shock which would he pl 1n starting, in suddenly stopping the re- The oppor section ing the sudden lli? verse action taires place, the battery support being else edeptedfto, swing forwardly, so

that the inertie of the cer body is overcome.`

tiret. lThe battery sup oit is elsoprefembly suspended inthe midd e of the cer body and es low as possibles@ that thework expended in merely raising end lowering the bettees,

es when one Wheel isliftedvby en obstruction or unevenness in the reed Without lifting the other Wheels, lor the wheels on 'one slde only ere lifted without liftin them on the otherz I side, is more nearly equeized than if the 'bettery were sop orted at one side of the frame. This loss 1s, "owever, to a, materiel extent prevented bythe transverse swinging of the )attery support," as one side or corner of the :if desired, but i consider the employment of.

two rods adjacent the eorners at one end, and one inthe middle et the other end, ter more advantageous than to provide one support et each corner, for the reason that the lifting dieet on the battery'suppert, resulting from lifting separately eithcr'of the corners adjecent thcend at which' the single suspension rod is provlded is much less than if the su Iport were suspended et each corner. 'il-e extent which the support Will be lifted upon the exure or yielding of the freine as one Wheel pessesvover an obstruction is else less when suspended as described than it would I )be ifit were suspended et each corner.

` Having thus described my invention, what esteis i claim es new and desire to secure by Letters Potent is v 1.131 combination with enjeutomobile frame, e baseedaptedf tosupport the bet-a teries thereon, e series of threesuspension rods having heads fmt-each end provided with omwsitelyv` disposed spherical shaped faces, seid treme and said bese each having sper-k tures, through Which'said rods pass loosely',l and having, voppositelyr disposed recesses about seid apertures, the bottoms of Which Iare adapted-to receivel the spherical faces of seid heedsto. erIni/t seid base to'swing freely in enyvdireetion with relation to said frame, as and for the purpose set forth. I 2. VIn combination with enl automobile treme, e battery support and ineens for suspending the seme et points bestow its center. of gravity vcomprising s peil of suspension rods connected to 'said base adjecent oppoy65y site sides' and one end thereof, end a third rod connected to seid bese et the vopposite end and edjseent the middle thereof, seid rods bein eonneeted to seid freine et their upper en s, seid suspending means permitf .ting free universel swinging movement of'- said support with relation to 'said frame,

Asubstantially es described.

y 3. Infeombinetion with en automobile frame, e bettery support. and mea'fnsgfor. sus 7=5 pending the seme etpoints below' its center of" gravity eornprisin .a pair of suspension rods connected to sei bese adjacent opposite sides and one end thereof, and a third rod connected to said base et thev opposite end and adjacent the-middle thereofsaid rods being connected to seid freinent their upper' ends, substantially es described@ I In testimony'-Whereof,l I have signed my name to this speciiieetion, inthepresence of. 8'5".

two subscribing Witnesses.- l l v .SAMUELxfR-'BAILEY iNitnesses: LELHARMMAN, B. Denis 

